The FBI is pressing Apple to help it break into a terrorist’s iPhones, but the government can hack into the devices without the technology giant, according to experts in cybersecurity and digital forensics. From a report: Investigators can exploit a range of security vulnerabilities — available directly or through providers such as Cellebrite and Grayshift — to break into the phones,…
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Less Than 10 Percent of Americans Are Buying $1,000 Smartphones, Report Says
According to a new report from research firm NPD, less than 10% of Americans are actually spending $1,000 or more on a smartphone. 9to5Google reports: The report was produced by research firm NPD and shows that while the media and brand focus is on the flagships such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 10, Galaxy S10, and iPhone 11 Pro, everyday Americans…
The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler
Brian Krebs: One of the more curious behaviors of Apple’s new iPhone 11 Pro is that it intermittently seeks the user’s location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request this data. Apple says this is by design, but that response seems at odds with the company’s own privacy policy. The privacy…
Huawei Manages To Make Smartphones Without American Chips
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: Huawei’s latest phone, which it unveiled in September — the Mate 30 with a curved display and wide-angle cameras that competes with Apple’s iPhone 11 — contained no U.S. parts, according to an analysis by UBS and Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, a Japanese technology lab that took the device apart to…
Huawei Is Now Making Smartphones Without American Chips
“American tech companies are getting the go-ahead to resume business with Chinese smartphone giant Huawei Technologies Co., but it may be too late,” reports the Wall Street Journal. Huawei is just building its smartphones without U.S. chips.
Huawei’s latest phone, which it unveiled in September — the Mate 30 with a curved display, telephone and wide-angle cameras that competes with Apple Inc.’s…
Inside Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut
Apple is overhauling how it tests software after a swarm of bugs marred the latest iPhone and iPad operating systems, Bloomberg reported Thursday. From the report: Software chief Craig Federighi and lieutenants including Stacey Lysik announced the changes at a recent internal “kickoff” meeting with the company’s software developers. The new approach calls for Apple’s development teams to ensure that test…
Apple Is Finally Willing To Make Gadgets Thicker So They Work Better
Apple has started to make its products thicker in an effort to give people what they want: functionality over form. This is a good thing. There are two recent examples: this year’s iPhones and the new 16-inch MacBook Pro. Todd Haselton writes via CNBC: This is a theory, but it seems this may be that there are some design changes being…
iOS 13.2 Released With Deep Fusion, Siri Privacy Settings
Apple has released iOS 13.2 today, bringing over 60 new emoji, new Siri privacy settings, and Apple’s new Deep Fusion camera technology. 9to5Mac reports: There are over 60 new emoji and emoji variations in iOS 13.2. Apple first previewed these emoji over the summer, and they are now available for everyone. In total, the new 2019 emoji set includes 59 new…
Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because ‘Cellphones Are Throwaways’
The New Hampshire State House rejected the Digital Fair Repair Act earlier this week in part thanks to a representative who seems to think that cell phones are literally garbage that no one should bother repairing. From a report: The bill would have forced manufacturers such as Apple to share repair manuals and parts with independent repair stores. House members didn’t…
Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy
David Shayer, who worked as a software engineer at Apple for 18 years across iPod, the Apple Watch, and Apple’s bug-tracking system Radar, among other projects, looks at the current iOS and macOS releases and tries to work out why they are so buggy. He writes: 1. Overloaded Feature Lists Lead to Schedule Chicken: Apple is aggressive about including significant features…